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Friday 12 June 2009
Alien Invasion?
Can anyone identify this moth which we found outside Penguin Towers this morning - photograph hardly does it justice, very chunk body, strong "Vulcan Bomber" wings, purple-red and green colouring.
I love the comments from everyone! Thank you for my morning laugh. Here in California we have very pretty Cecropia moths. http://www.naturemoncton.org/images/Cecropia%20Moth.JPG
When they crawl on your hand, the little hooks on their feet are creepy. I'd rather let my tarantula walk on me.
looks like an Elephant Hawk Moth
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Thanks @12.08, looks just like that!
ReplyDeleteBig hairy moths give me the willies. Horrible! Going by the size of it I would say its a behe moth!
ReplyDeleteIt's a chav moth, it's got Burberry colours on.
ReplyDeletewv= frimat, a dyslexic mathematician?
More sweepback than a Vulcan. Looks more like your favourite Mach 2+ fighter jet!
ReplyDeleteI love the comments from everyone! Thank you for my morning laugh. Here in California we have very pretty Cecropia moths. http://www.naturemoncton.org/images/Cecropia%20Moth.JPG
ReplyDeleteWhen they crawl on your hand, the little hooks on their feet are creepy. I'd rather let my tarantula walk on me.
Saw the same brand of moth on a spanish ship last year. I know what you mean about the photo not doing justice, they are huge and awesome beasts.
ReplyDeleteI think you need a pilots licence to own one though, so expect a call from the CAA any time now.
it not only looks like an elephant hawk moth, it is one. the caterpillars feed on rosebay willowherb, and look like an elpehant's trunk.
ReplyDeleteto bombay
a travelling circus came,
they brought an intelligent mo-o-oth
Deilephila elpenor was her naaaame....